The December 12th episode of my column, Electric Dreams #40, discussed the relative success in text processing using statistical methods over conventional natural language processing. The latest issue of The Economist (Dec 17-24th) has this as its lead science story. I congratulate myself on having one over my favourite periodical! Of course my article was 500 words, so the larger Economist story was more detailed. While I mentioned technology developed by the US National Security Agency and Architext, The Economist referred to research undertaken at BT (formerly British Telecom) and Cornell University, especially the work on automated text-summarization programs. If you'd like a copy of my original article, please send a blank message to rishab@arbornet.org with "get dreams-40" (without the quotes) as the Subject: field. For an index, send "get index"; to automatically receive future episodes of this 5kbyte/week column, send "subscribe". Happy Christmas and New Year! Rishab ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "In between the breaths is rishab@dxm.ernet.in the space where we live" rishab@arbornet.org - Lawrence Durrell Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA